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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill
English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)
This regrettable point of view runs through all of tw's thinking, and he'd like me to adopt it. He'd feel better in his -- lapsed -- condition if I did. He consistently champions it, and opposes and criticizes those who are otherwise in the head and heart -- calls 'em cannon-fodder and puppets and so forth. Unfortunately for tw's ill-founded moral self-estimation, I have better ideas than that. His badness torments him -- and I help. He could perhaps have had something else, something better. But nooooope. Now that Radar's taken off, tw's is the #1 miswired psyche in the Cellar.
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Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
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01-28-2012, 10:15 AM
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